Canada ups seal hunt quota by 50,000

[FarCenter]

AFP - Canada's fisheries minister on Monday hiked the total number of seals that hunters would be allowed to slaughter during an annual Atlantic coast hunt set to begin later this month.

The total allowable catch for harp seals this season will rise to 330,000, from 280,000 last year, while quotas for grey and hooded seals will remain unchanged at 50,000 and 8,200 animals, respectively.

The reason cited by officials for the increased quota is a growing seal population in the Gulf of St. Lawrence and in waters east of Newfoundland.

"This government is united in its support of the thousands of coastal Canadian sealers who rely on the seal hunt for their livelihood," Fisheries Minister Gail Shea said in a statement.

"The seal hunt is a sustainable activity based on sound conservation principles."

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There is very little ice in the Gulf of St Lawrence, so much of this year's crop of seal pups will die anyway.

[suede1]

1. I have always despised the people involved in this!

[LakeSamish706]

2. This is so sick, what a bunch of barbarians... grr.

[JanMichael]

3. Revolting. I hate those assholes (not the baby seals).

Period.

[HeresyLives]

4. There is also a seal hunt in Alaska.

And it's no different than steak or chops or shrimp or anything else

[flvegan]

5. Which is why I don't buy anything from Canada.

This should be the final year for the seal hunt. This is simply posturing in my opinion.

I wish nothing but famine upon the fishing industry participants in this. May you lose everything this coming year. You deserve it.

[Luciferous]

8. +1

[Electric Monk]

13. Have you seen Food Inc. yet? You'll never look at dinner the same way again.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1286537/

[flvegan]

18. I have. But, I'm also a vegan.

Dinner has been different for me for quite some time. Food Inc was indeed a good documentary.

[Doremus]

14. I think that every year.

Every year I think "this will be the last year." Same with the whale hunt.

It never is.

:cry: :cry: :cry:


Barbaric. And the people who participate in it are barbarians.

[HeresyLives]

15. Well then you're talking about aboriginals for the most part.

Inuit...what you call Eskimos.

[flvegan]

19. It's different now. The EU has banned seal products.

Market is gone. It should be over.

[HeresyLives]

20. Sorry, but Europe welcomes aboriginal seal hunting.

Biggest market for them is Paris and Milan.

[flvegan]

21. The commercial hunt isn't aboriginal. Europe's finest dragging knuckles behind them and all.

[HeresyLives]

22. Aboriginals are involved.

And all their hunts are exempted from the EU ban.

The EU of bullfights and foie gras.

[flvegan]

23. Are you that daft?

Involved in such a tiny scale. Stop being pathetic.

I look forward to this hunt ending and your shit country support suffering because of it.

Suck it.

[HeresyLives]

24. Seal hunting goes on in Alaska.

Anti-native are you?

[flvegan]

26. Anti-commercial fisherman douchebag. Thanks, apologist.

[HeresyLives]

27. Who apologized? I didn't.

And a bunch of unemployed men out on the ice trying to make a few bucks to feed their families is right up DU's alley.

[flvegan]

28. The only shame? Sea Shepherd didn't send any of those ships to the sea floor.

Fuck Canada's seal killers. They deserve what they get.

Enjoy the last year of the kill, fuckos.

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[flvegan]

30. You'd say that about dogfighters too, I suppose.

Animal cruelty supporting poster that you are.

Racist. Prove it, or shut the fuck up.

[HeresyLives]

31. Tsk, racism, ignorance, fairy tales, crudity....

You have it all.

[flvegan]

32. Come on.

You call names, but have nothing else to support it.

Typical of those that support animal cruelty.

I can't wait until your blessed shit moron fisherman can't kill seals anymore because there won't be any profit. They'll be back to trying to catch fish in a decimated fishery that they were warned about, but Canada was too fucking stupid to do anything about.

Fuck them.

[HeresyLives]

33. Hey, you're the one making the posts.

If you knew anything about the topic you'd be aware the men make about $1500.00 a season, if that.

And the seal hunt over all makes peanuts.

The seals have never been endangered, in fact they're breeding like crazy and eating tons of fish.

[flvegan]

34. Yeah, it's about killing cockroaches, isn't it?

Can't compete with the fisher"men" so they should be killed, eating all that fish huh?

They get in the way of making money off of overfished waters, so they have to be eliminated.

Pity.

Better find another line of work, fuckwits.

[HeresyLives]

35. It's about the burgers you enjoy, actually.

And the steaks on the BBQ, and the chops, and that turkey you have at Thanksgiving.

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[HeresyLives]

37. Brussel sprouts like to live too.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/22/science/22angi.html?em

[Electric Monk]

38. I saw that one coming for the last hour and a half. Nice zing, especially if true. nt

[HeresyLives]

39. Yeah, it's true.

i remember reading an article a few years ago about how plants scream when you cut them, we just can't hear it without special equipment. Which is a good thing or nobody would mow their lawn. LOL

All life feeds on death

We've known that for thousands of years.

[Electric Monk]

40. The "Cry of the genetically modified soy bean / carrot / broccoflower crossebreeds"

I think it was by Tool?

[HeresyLives]

41. Well since plants have been GM since the dawn of man,

it's entirely possible someone has sung about it.

But somehow I doubt it's a catchy tune. :rofl:

[Ignis]

42. How is flvegan a racist? Support w/ cites, please. (nt)

[HeresyLives]

43. Inuit...what you call Eskimos...

survive by hunting.

They eat seals, and they send the furs to Europe for cash.

The 'commercial' seal hunt means a few fishermen trying to make a few bucks in the winter to feed their families.

But Inuit from Alaska to eastern Canada need it to survive.

I don't like to see people starve, do you?

It's an indigenous culture that chooses to remain that way.

[Ignis]

45. Yes, I know who the Inuit are. I'm asking about flvegan.

How is he a racist?

[Maru Kitteh]

17. +2

[Elwood P Dowd]

6. What is the problem with these dickheads?

You have to be one sick human being to keep supporting this. Clubbing to death baby seals is "sound conservation principles"?

[HeresyLives]

7. It's illegal to kill baby seals.

Baby lambs are okay tho.

[Luciferous]

9. There are those of us who don't advocate killing either.

[HeresyLives]

10. Good for you, but not everyone is a vegan.

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[azul]

12. Seals must look up at humans as highly evolved beings with supernatural powers.

And then they see what we choose to do with those powers to other species, and they must say to themselves, think I'll skip being born human next time around?

You shouldn't have to pretend that you are still a beast, when in fact you are a human being, a being respectful of all life and of yourself too.

[Doremus]

16. How stupid am I.

I keep thinking I need to shoo them all away before the men with clubs arrive.

Even if there was somewhere for them to go, like nobody would know where they were duhhhh.

It just makes me feel so helpless.

:cry: :cry: :cry:

[Mari333]

47. watch THIS VIDEO and tell me it is okay to murder helpless baby seals

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/video/2009/mar/26/canada-seal-hunt

if you still think it is okay, fuck you.

[Lord Helmet]

25. Boo.

[Last_Stand]

44. .

[Mari333]

46. assholes. fucking assholes.